Today I decided to compile the top 25 films of the decade, as voted by the users of the Internet Movie Database. While it is very easy to discount any of these lists (or any best of list in general), and while it might be easy for many of you to just write off the user ratings on IMDb as fanboy voting, it’s definitely the largest sampling of movie-going opinion that exists today.

# American Film Title (year) IMDb rating # of Votes # on Top 250 of all Time List

1. The Dark Knight (2008) 8.8 410,450 9 2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 8.8 329,852 11 3. City of God (2002) 8.7 148,073 16 4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8.7 355,929 20 5. Avatar (2009) 8.6 69,101 24